# Category pulldown search does not show subcategories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-pulldown-search-does-not-show-subcategories/80677
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 15, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-pulldown-search-does-not-show-subcategories/80677 "2018-02-15T21:48:47Z")
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### Author: ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-pulldown-search-does-not-show-subcategories/80677/7 "2018-02-16T16:32:48Z")

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Looking at Envato, which has very strong walls between it’s parent categories, I like how it’s currently working:

 ![sample](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/f/9/1f9a94681893bcbf27e30acd6c700d274ce485d7.png)

Search field only appears in the subcategory dropdown. One unified category dropdown wouldn’t be good there… So now I don’t know what to think.

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